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Max Barry Quotes: When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
         

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.


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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.



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Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.



I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.



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Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.



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every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged



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